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Originally Posted by freebeard
That's the only part that advances the conversation. First paragraph is a redefinition of Coriolis Effect, the rest is word salad. I did have to look up Rossby waves. So there is that. |
The Hadley Circulation ( Intertropical Convergence Zone ) cloud bank initiates wherever latitude is 'directly below ' the sunlight.
The heat gives it the lift, just as with a hot air balloon, taking extreme rain/ monsoonal payloads with it, like the Walker Circulation of an El Nino Southern Oscillation carries moisture E-W.
The air drops moisture as it rises to as high as 8-miles, where it's 68-degrees below zero.
Now cold, dense, and 'desiccated', as far as 25-degrees N or S, it falls to earth as 'aridity' at midlatitudes.
They produce tremendous rain, plus 'deserts.' The southern region presently mined for Lithium, and the Bonneville Salt Flats/ Great South Lake, are created by the ITCZ.
The Coriolis pseudo-force peters out against the 'weight' of the air.
The ITCZ also moves with the ice ages, following the 22,000-year precession of the equinox Milankovitch cycle.
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The 'word soup' contains some of the climate components that Richard Lindzen didn't know anything about, causing his fall from grace.